Died in jail or a lockup
John Talley
John Talley, a Black man who worked as a delivery wagon driver, was held in the Dyersburg jail in Tennessee. On November 7, 1913, a crowd of about 300 people stormed the jail; the jailer fled, and after he gave the crowd the wrong keys, they broke the door down with a sledgehammer. According to the newspaper account, the crowd took Talley to the courthouse yard and hanged him from a locust tree, and the paper described the lynching as orderly.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.